Install was fine (I've not been having any major problems with the installer for a while now). Well, not quite true.

I selected UK keyboard, as usual. This time, I unticked the 'use localisation' box at both the root and user level. Now I have US keyboard in both X and console! This has been broken for quite a while, and I had hoped it might work this time.

I'm also still getting a root password prompt when Wicd starts.

I still can't set the locale correctly in KDE - it remains convinced I live in Gurnsey, and I have no way to change that at all.

I was unable to boot the CD on the 1.3 GHz Celeron desktop, which is my test machine. It fails to detect the CD as bootable. I did burn another CD but that one also failed. Is there an MD5SUM I can use to verify that my download is ok? Otherwise I'll have to assume a problem that was fixed several versions ago is back (failure to boot a CD when some VIA chipsets were involved and several of us reported the problem, which was finally fixed).

Soooo--nothing to report, alas! I'll try the CD on my laptop this evening.--GrannyGeek

I'm now on the 2 GHz Mobile Celeron laptop with an Intel chipset. The CD booted fine. I didn't take it any farther than GParted, but all worked well up to that point. This laptop is almost 7 years old, which I think would qualify it as an old machine.

So I think that points to a resurfacing of the VIA boot problem for VL home-burned CDs. It was fixed once, so I'm optimistic that it will be fixed again.

Now that I've made XFce 4.6.1 my default desktop in Beta 4, I'm VERY enthusiastic about SOHO and eagerly awaiting the final version. I am also hoping that the text installer is available soon. If it were, I could install from the hard drive with vinstall. I don't care a bit about having a graphical installer but I realize that VL needs it in order to make us look up-to-date in comparison with other distros. Silly, but I guess that's the way it is.--GrannyGeek

I was unable to boot the CD on the 1.3 GHz Celeron desktop, which is my test machine. It fails to detect the CD as bootable.

Well, looks like I learned something here. Using xdelta to make a new iso from a previous version seems to cause boot problems for some machines.................I am in the process of uploading the complete iso built locally to osuosl.org. There is no version difference I will simply overwrite the previous iso (beta4.2 cd1). Sorry to make you download twice I didn't know. I will post here when the new iso is in place. Thanks again all for trying. Cai Eng question ..........what video does your a21 laptop use? ATI correct? Thanks again for testing!!!

no haven't updated installer yet but gave M0E the go ahead to include external usb devices. However, be warned you are on your own setting a bootloader for this configuration. I would think we will have a working installer for external usb in a few days. So prolly next release look for it.....................

The existing setup works very well with Standard. Since the BIOS detects the device when the notebook starts up, all I did was write LILO to the USB device and then set the boot order on the notebook. If the USB device is plugged in, it becomes the first boot device. If it's not plugged in, the hard drive on the notebook is the first boot device.

A working installer for this type of setup will be much appreciated. Danke!

The existing setup works very well with Standard. Since the BIOS detects the device when the notebook starts up, all I did was write LILO to the USB device and then set the boot order on the notebook. If the USB device is plugged in, it becomes the first boot device. If it's not plugged in, the hard drive on the notebook is the first boot device.

A working installer for this type of setup will be much appreciated. Danke!

OK.. I just tried this because I had some time to try to debug this,

I have an external USB drive that I use most of the time to boot ISO's and as backup drive for all kinds of things. Downloaded an old beta1 ISO and booted it up, the installer even the old code shows my external drive as available target partitions.

Tried a newer ISO, and it does too.My internal drive is /dev/sda and external is /dev/sdb.

I dont know what is different about your device. Can you give us information about it... ? interface, make, model, current partition table print out

I installed the latest beta and have a problem with my sata dvd burner. It is a HPdvd 1270 and k3b and the cd player dont find it.I used it to install VL and it worked in beta 3. Dont know why it wouldn't be recognized now?